Dashing through the snow...

Yesterday, Barrett and I were running errands by ourselves. He was singing the playground versions of "Jingle Bells".

You all know what I am talking about.

I was singing along with him, and we were having such a great time together.

He told me a few variations on the playground version, and then he said:

"But the REAL version goes:
'Jingle bells
Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
Batmobile lost a wheel
and the Joker got away.' "

I saw this as a teaching moment, so I said:

"Well, the real version goes like this:
'Jingle bells
Jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a one horse open sleigh' ."

I sensed that he was slightly taken aback from this sudden knowledge.

We kept singing and having a great time together.

When we got home, Barrett got out a notebook and started to write. I didn't know what he was doing, but I was happy to see him writing. Handwriting can only get better with experience.

Suddenly he asked me: "Mom, how do you spell 'whore'?"

Me: "What? Why do you want to know?"

B: "Because I am writing down the real words to the song, so I can show my friends at school."

Me: "Oh, well that word is not in the song, the word 'horse' is in the song, but not the word 'whore'. You know it is a horse that is pulling the 'one horse open sleigh'."

B: "Oh. Yeah."

Well, I am glad we cleared that up before it made the rounds at school!

SUPER GLAD!